Microsoft Follows Google, Files For Desktop Remoting Patent

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Desktop remoting is emerging as one of the killer features of Google's Chrome OS, as it allows even small low power devices to connect to a regular and powerful desktop PC and run traditional x86 or Mac OS X apps.

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[InvalidError]

Great, a patent on doing little more than VNC/RDP/X-client over HTML.

Almost certain I have already seen and used something like that for a short while several years ago.

 

[memadmax]

Patents are a joke.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Patents are a joke.[/citation]
And this is new? Nope.

 

[thecolorblue]

software patents ARE ILLEGAL as ruled by the supreme court in Gottschalk v Benson.

the court that does handle patent cases has effectively overruled the supreme court and that court is itself responsible for the disaster that is the US patent system with regards to software patents in the US.

The supreme court is not required to "care" about any issue and has in fact actively avoided the issue altogether... letting the patents court run wild and letting the existing software patents sh!tstorm run wild

 

[abbadon_34]

I'm guessing something is missing here. This has been around for more than a decade.

Histroyically the USPTO has always issued patents on anything and everything to anyone. It didn't matter if it worked, existed, was theoretical or was plain made up. It was only recently (Apple) that they became important and started to scrutinize (and hence reject old, previously approved) patents. It's no wonder why there have been so many mistakes and strange decisions.

 

[d_kuhn]

Everyone knows that the current patent system badly needs updating to catch up with the changing nature of IP... I don't think they're "a joke" but the ability to patent things that basically require no expertise to come up with seems a bit silly. The idea of a patent was to reward someone who works hard and discovers something new and valuable.

Having said that... I think this particular idea is pretty cool... I use the CRAP out of Remote Desktop (Dameware usually) for system managment (and I'm not even in IT). It would be very cool to have a true open standard for any backend system that would allow a single client for all host OS's. That of course is assuming that MS doesn't cripple it to only work with Windows.

 

[kellybean]

Yet again, MS copies and does not innovate.

 

[bllue]

[citation][nom]kellybean[/nom]Yet again, MS copies and does not innovate.[/citation]
Must've gotten it confused with Apple

 

[gmarsack]

How is this any different than iLO on HP or Dell DRAC ports on those servers... remote desktop over a standard browser. This has been around for a LONG time...

 

[wemakeourfuture]

[citation][nom]BLLUE[/nom]Must've gotten it confused with Apple[/citation]

Microsoft has 3 decades of unparalleled copying. Apple doesn't even come close to the lack of innovation and copying Microsoft has done.

 

[scythe944]

Seems sort of like Citrix to me